"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses."

"Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well... we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all... And this is another point where we differ from other people. We are capable at the same time of taking risks and of estimating them beforehand. Others are brave out of ignorance; and, when they stop to think, they begin to fear. But the man who can most truly be accounted brave is he who best knows the meaning of what is sweet in life and of what is terrible, and then goes out undeterred to meet what is to come."

"We are free and tolerant in our private lives; but in public affairs we keep to the law... We give our obedience to those whom we put in positions of authority"

"For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes: the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness"

~Sophocles~
(Oedipus at Colonus)

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